event

Definitions


[ɪˈvɛnt], (Noun)

Definitions:
- a thing that happens or takes place, especially one of importance
(e.g: the momentous political events of the late 1980s)


Phrases:
- after the event
- in any event
- in that event
- in the event
- in the event of —
- in the event that

Origin:
mid 16th century (originally in the sense ‘outcome, result’): from Latin eventus, from evenire ‘result, happen’, from e- (variant of ex-) ‘out of’ + venire ‘come’




definition by Oxford Dictionaries